Minister, in view of the limited time, I'm just going to focus on a few questions and so on and issues that really arise as a result of this motion. The first one is that I think it would be very useful to have a public health analysis post these events, not just in respect of the psychological trauma that's been suffered, but we know that many people in the clearing of their homes have had to have additional tetanus injections and also been put on a series of antibiotics. We've seen people with inflammation of their skin in areas where they've had nicks and cuts as a result of this process. Now, this is quite significant and I think it's something that is well worth a public health evaluation.

The other issue, of course, that has been raised, is that of the issue of flood defences. I know, in Ilan, Welsh Government, with European money, invested substantially in containment pits for water running off the hills above Rhydyfelin and that, in fact, has worked very, very effectively. Those flood defences did work, but they were exceeded in some areas and there were certain areas where certain measures might have been taken that would have limited the flooding that did occur—certainly not on a scale that's ever been known before, because it was an area of regular flooding.

The other issue, of course, in areas around the A470—culvert drainage, culvert clearance, is clearly something that has been a bit of a problem. I've written about this to Welsh Government separately. But, clearly, there were homes that were flooded there, not as a result of the River Taff breaking its banks, but as a result of those culverts overflowing, because, I suspect, of, potentially, a lack of maintenance.

Another area that needs to be addressed, it seems to me, is the issue of the placement of large containers and similar sorts of objects in flood liable areas. Because those containers flowing down the river, crashing into bridges, have actually doubled and massively increased the amount of damage. It seems to me that we need to look at the actual planning or the licensing arrangements, or the arrangements that exist for people being allowed to place such objects there.

And then, finally, I have written again separately about this, and that is I think there needs to be a moratorium on proposed planning developments in floodplain areas, with a need to actually review what we understand by 'a floodplain'. Because, quite clearly, there are areas that are marginally outside floodplain areas being developed, but that, in the light of what we now know and we are now seeing, really need to be reassessed. So, we need really a moratorium on developments, because developments that may take place in the next year or two—it's really too late in terms of the subsequent consequences that there may be. So, what I'd ask is that perhaps one of the things that we need to do is to consider the nature of planning and the nature of what we have previously understood as floodplains, and have a review of that.